Sociocybernetics: tensions between complex systems, social systems and complexity sciences

Understanding Complex Systems Simulating Social Complexity

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Complex Adaptive Systems in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS)--such as individuals, groups, and societies-including the underlying structure of CAS, the internal dynamics of evolving CAS, and how CAS respond to their environment. Examples drawn from psychology, s...

Complexity and social systems

There exist an increasing awareness within the scientific community for the need to deal with the complex dimension of social systems. This paper examines three approaches to incorporate complexity theory into the practice of social sciences. The first approach consists of supplementing the modernist program with chaos theory. The second one proposes a metaphoric application of complexity theor...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Systems Theory, Knowledge, and the Social Sciences

It is not too much of an overstatement, I think, to suggest that systems theory has not lived up to the great promise it has long been supposed to hold for the social sciences. Considering the magnitude of the claims, of course, disappointment was probably inevitable. Systems theory has been hailed by some as a way of unifying the methodology of all sciences. Others have intimated that this app...